St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-10
A BORN ORCHESTRAL LEADER
Liberati Shines Brighter the More
One Knows Him,

The more one sees and knows of
Liberati the more one is attracted to the
whole personality of the man. At once
an Incompatible .cornetist, born Or
chestral leader, and a composer of
music of wellknown ability, he is also
business man, energetic and enter
prising. On arriving at the Exposition
yesterday he was discovered at the man.
agerial headquarters up to his ears in
work, supervising the arrival of sheet
music that had lust come in, and enough
of it was there to fill large store 1t
is all new. and most of it imported from
Germany and the great English musical
house of BOosey Il Co., in London. To
give an idea of the vast expense attend
ing a grand organization like this Liber-
att band, he took up what appeared to be
quite small package of sheet music
and informed those standing by that
just that little lot alone cost S45.
1t is needless to say that the
second afternoon concert was enjoyed,
the music hall was crowded, and the
people evinced their great delight in
loud, long and uproariouS applause.
The pieces rendered yesterday ranged
melodies. and in every selection rem
dered the same beautiful modulated
tone movements. quick precision in al
ternating from Stringed instruments to
brass, and general grace in the eXecu-
ton of the whole band gave crispnesS
and evenneSS to their performance that
could be at once land waS) appreciated
by the merest tyro in musical knowledge
as well as the most learned and elegant
scholar in that difficult art. During the
intermission the players mingle with the
crowd, and small knots of people gather
around them and engage in converse
ton with them. They are all pleasant,
affable gentlemen, and seem only too
glad to give all the information in their
power of themselves and their beautiful
work. The second part of the afternoon
concert was more enjoyable ii any
thing than the first, the second
selection being all especially fine one.
1t was the Invitation la Valse'' from
Weber. Commencing in a beautiful
tender softened sound wherein the
oboeS predominated, it was especially
fine till its finale with Liberati all afire,
his figure trembling all over, and the
whole Tor better part engaged in the
grand crash of cYmbOl. and trombone land
comets.
This was followed by the grand treat
of the afternoon. when Ii. A Hall gave
beautiful and stirring melody "The
Heart Bowed Down" from the Bohe-
milan girl. AS this grand soloist COM
menced to play, pin could almost have
been heard to drop in the vast hall. His
playing reSembled more than anything,
the cry of human soul lost on some
great waste of water, or desert land.
As the last notes died away, the effect
was instantaneous and the emphatic dem
and OF the people was answered by Mr.
Hall in pretty rendering of that popu-
lar ballad, THE Cricket on the HEARTH,
After the conclusion of the concert, Mr..
Hall remarked that the arrangement
he plays in the Heart Bowed Down.
was originally prepared for the instru-
ment known as the cOrno-anglaise, but
that it had become somewhat obsolete.
and the SaXOphOne was the only instru-
ment that could take it's place. The
concert was brought to an end by a
gallop entitled "Zuave,'' an original
composition by Liberati himself. This
could almost be known at once. so like
the man himself, all life, fire, love and
gayety.
Among the soloists of whom Liberati
is the most proud of in the whole COM
bination is the great trombone player.
Herr StoltZ. Liberati says himself he,
CtOleLs 10 liiC SlCdlcot ptIlOIll6r lie mas
with him.
Ewald Stoltz is now about forty years
old. He is fine, massive looking, mid
die aged man, inclined to be tall with a
striking head and dark eyes, and dark
short beard and mustache. He is
native of Loewenberg, in Silesia, Ger
many, where he first studied under
Kheul and Max Seifriz, court leader
to the Prince of HohenZOllern.
Hechingen. When boy he was
in the chorus of this orchestra,
afterwards studying under Jul
Elger in different instruments at
Warmbrun. He became member of
the Thirty-fourtb Regiment band in the
German army and went with them
through the Franco-German war.
Among other famous orehestras in which
he played in the old country there was
b. Bilse in Berlin, the private orchestra
of the great Russian Croesus, Baron de
Dervis, in Italy, and the Royal Prssuian
orchestra in the service of the royal court
theater at Wiksbaden, Germany. Herr
StoltZ came to America i'm 1881 and again
in 1882. He was with the Schreiner
orchestra then with the Dafossez Grand